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Stand up and take a walk from one side of the room to the other. Now, do it again, but this time focus on the technique of your walking. How your hip flexors slightly lift your leg off the ground. How your back foot pushed off the toe and the front comes down on its heel.

More than likely your second trip will be more awkward than the first. It can be difficult to think about an activity while your performing it, and many activities are so ingrained that we don’t need to think about it unless something impedes our normal technique.

This state of action without thinking is a prized possession because of the way it allows our mind to flow freely, and according to many eastern philosophies is the goal of meditation.

I’m going to be honest here for a moment. I despise seeing all these motivational images online anymore. Every time I see some random person posting a motivational picture, whether it be Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, or in an online forum, I just cringe. It hurts me to have to look at these things.

Sure, there are some cool pictures out there that make you want to jump out of your seat and take on the world, but the market is flooded, so to speak, and the relative value of each item has dwindled.

Maybe it’s just that they are everywhere. People are looking for motivation to do just about anything from making money to lose weight. The current trend is to be great at all sorts of things, so these pictures speak to that desire.

Goals are a hot topic. From athletes to business-folk, talk about goals is a main focus. Much ado is made about setting them and going after. We hear over and over about how the best are always goal-setters, and we should be too if we hope to achieve great things.